Quote Originally Posted by Shrewsbury Blue View Post
The only two studies on the effectiveness of face mask preventing the spread of covid,one a Danish study's he other American said that wearing a face mask is pretty much useless at preventing the spread of covid. The mainstream media virtually ignored these studies as they seem to prefer a we are all going to die type of hysteria. It a bit baffling why people think they do any good at all. Think with a lot of people it's as much a virtue signalling thing as anything else.

At least the constant washing your hand thing seems to be going out the window as scientists have now pointed out that catching covid from touching some surface or object is almost unheard of. It was mainstream thought not long ago. Wonder how many millions of gallons of gel have been wasted.
I’ve noticed before how Libertarians seem reluctant to post links to back their sweeping statements, so here’s a few links that I came across in a not very detailed search. They include a Danish one and an American one which may be the ones you refer to, but I could find anything saying wearing face masks was “pretty much useless” in preventing the spread of Covid.

Some of the links may be duplications, but they tend to show this matter is nowhere near as clear cut as you tried to make it sound.

I see you managed to rescue what was a pretty disappointing effort when it came to the libertarian checklist right at the end with a use of “virtue signalling”

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/m20-6817

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/l...293-4/fulltext

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/d...0.0376#d1e2177

https://journals.lww.com/oncology-ti...educed.22.aspx

https://www.clevelandfed.org/newsroo...d-beliefs.aspx

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-07-08...s-work-act-now